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Total Fertility Rate

Definition

The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime if she were subject to current age-specific fertility rates throughout her childbearing years.

Related terms

Crude Birth Rate: The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a year.

Replacement Level Fertility: The total fertility rate—the average number of children born per woman—at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next, without migration.

Population Pyramid: A graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population.

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AP Environmental Science

Study guides (1)

AP Human Geography - 2.5 The Demographic Transition Model

Practice Questions (8)

What leads to a lower total fertility rate?
What does a declining total fertility rate imply about a country's economic development?
Which country has the highest total fertility rate in the world?
Which factor most contributes to the decline of the total fertility rate during the demographic transition?
What effect have anti-natalist policies had on Singapore's total fertility rate?
How would the empowerment of women most directly impact a society's total fertility rate?
Which factor does not contribute to change in total fertility rate within a society?
Which factor largely contributes to a nation's total fertility rate?

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